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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy brooch of Roman date preserving the spring cover and a small section of the bow, the remainder missing due to old breaks. The spring cover is cylindrical in form and on its front face has incised decoration consisting of a series of three transverse grooves flanked by at least two vertical grooves to form a neat rectangular border around the casing. What survives of the bow is flat, possibly oval shaped in section, and may have had moulded decoration on the front face, but this is uncertain due to extensive corrosion and post-depositional damage. The fragment measures 14.36mm in length, 20.52mm in width and weighs 4.54g.This is probably a small fragment from the head of a Roman Langton Down brooch similar to examples published from Roman Hacheston (Blagg et al., 2004: nos. 34-39). These have similar incised decoration on the spring casings and would indicate a 1st century AD date of c.25-65 AD for the current example.
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